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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
This question will allow the interviewer to assess if you have career goals and where you see yourself in five years. Your answer will offer insights into the level of your ambition. It will also reveal how your perceived future aligns with the opportunity to work with them. The interviewer also hopes to glean your level of commitment to your future employer.

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"I imagine that five years from now, I'll have proven myself as invaluable to the rest of my team at work and be mentoring others in the way my mentor took care of me. I would love to see myself growing into a more prominent leadership role within your organization. I'd like to supervise or manage a team of my own with the Department of Water Resources. I feel like I am progressing in my career at a rate that will make this a possibility."

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
Examine your career plan and goals and how close you are to reaching those goals. Create a five-year career plan to further refine your goals. Outline where you plan to be in five and ten years, and consider how working with the Department of Water Resources can get you there. Consider the mutually beneficial opportunities working for them would offer you and the company. Once you have this mapped out, you can communicate your answer in a manner that should meet their expectations.

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